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*** Replication file for "All Economics Is Local: Spatial Aggregations of Economic Information": David Fortunato, Clinton S. Swift and Laron K. Williams
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*** Created: 5-1-16
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*** NOTE: Any questions, contact the corresponding author (Laron K. Williams) at williamslaro@missouri.edu
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This folder contains the following files:

*** "All Economics Is Local.dta"
	*** Data set adapted from the CCES 

*** "All Economics Is Local.do" and "All Economics Is Local.smcl"
	*** Stata do file containing the commands necessary to replicate the estimation of models and generation of substantive effects.
	*** Stata log file containing an exact replication of the models
	*** NOTE: the two models used in the paper are media ("W10") and economic similarity ("W14")

*** "wmodels.dta"
	*** Stata data set generated in "All Economics Is Local.do" that contains all of the substantive effects (used in the "All Economics Is Local--Figures Replication.R" file to generate Figure 1).

*** "All Economics Is Local--Figures Replication.R"
	*** R script file to generate the two figures in the manuscript

*** "Model Fit Comparison.R"
	*** R script file that shows the model comparisons based on in-sample predictive accuracy in Table 3

*** "Out of Sample Predictions.R"
	*** R script file that shows the model comparisons based on out-of-sample predictive accuracy
	*** Generates the "OOSPresults.txt" file that is used to produce the bootstrap summary measures shown in Table 3
